‘Her Mother’s Nuns’ — Art by Katie Turner Bailey
(This art was a gift from Kate in 1999 and still hangs on one of our walls. This is a digital copy of her original art.)
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
― Pablo Picasso
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Her Mother’s Nuns Leave a comment
Kate’s Wall Art 2 comments
Kate’s Wall Art In Our Arizona Room — Image by kenne
Shadows on the wall
began as a photo
of two nuns
from her mom’s
nun collection
printed on a cloth
of ragged edges
pressed between
two glass sheets
twenty-two years ago.
— kenne
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HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY, KATELYN 2 comments
Katelyn with Her Aunt Kate (July 2021)
When you look at me, you see the past.
When I look at you, I see the future and
Feel good about things to come.
— kenne
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Watercolor Painting 1 comment
Watercolor Painting by Katie Turner Bailey
Watercolor is like life.
Better get it right the first time–
you don’t get a second chance!
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Tracks In The Snow Leave a comment
Tracks In The Snow — Image by Katie Turner Bailey
Delicate frigid flakes layer and repeat
As tracks trace a path of adventurous feet
Soon to be melted by warming rays…
Fading away with winter’s dreary days
— Theresa Ann Moore
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Grantham New Hampshire Snow Fall 1 comment
Images by Kate Turner Bailey
Daughter Kate and her family live on 17 acres in Grantham, New Hampshire. Getting snow in the winter is not unusual; three feet of the white stuff is unusual. You can see an animal path leading down to the brook and across it if you look carefully.
These images are the morning after the winter storm. The day before, Kate texted the following video.
— kenne
In care you are wonder, the chicken are fine — all fluffy with plenty of food and water.
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I Think So 1 comment
Dad and Daughter (03/30/05) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Our human condition makes us tend to share
only the best of ourselves,
because we are always searching
for love and approval.
— Paulo Coelho
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A Note To Kate In Grantham, NH 4 comments
Red Rock Country South Of Sedona, Arizona — Image by kenne
March
Lists help,
composed during long afternoon showers.
Though just now, crossing off
alphabetize books in study
and moving on to vacuum stairs,
I find clumps of white hair on the rug.
The dog is shedding.
She thinks spring is coming.
— Wendy Mnookin
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Truth Never Dies 1 comment
Guest Artist, Katie Turner Bailey
Truth never dies. The ages come and go.
The mountains wear away, the stars retire.
Destruction lays earth’s mighty cities low;
And empires, states and dynasties expire;
But caught and handed onward by the wise,
Truth never dies.
Though unreceived and scoffed at through the years,
Though made the butt of ridicule and jest,
Though held aloft for mockery and jeers,
Denied by those of transient power possessed,
Insulted by the insolence of lies,
Truth never dies.
It answers not. It does not take offense,
But with a mighty silence bides its time.
As some great cliff that braves the elements
And lifts through all the storms its head sublime,
It ever stands, uplifted by the wise,
And never dies.
As rests the Sphinx amid Egyptian sands;
As looms on high the snowy peak and crest;
As firm and patient as Gibraltar stands,
So truth, unwearied, waits the era blest
When men shall turn to it with great surprise.
Truth never dies.
— Anonymous
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Silhouettes by Katie 3 comments
kenne and Grandson Jaxon
kenne and Grandson Jaxon
Granddaughter Katelyn
Granddaughter Katelyn
(iPhone Images by Katie Turner Bailey)
During the week of March 12th, son David, granddaughter Katelyn,
daughter Katie, grandsons Nick and Jaxon visited Joy and me in Tucson.
Each day would end watching the sunset from the patio.
On several occasions, Katie took images with her iPhone.
— kenne
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Peace of Mind Leave a comment
Sunset image on the back of Matt Bailey’s motorcycle by Katie Turner Bailey, computer art rendering by kenne
“Peace of mind produces right values,
right values produce right thoughts.
Right thoughts produce right actions
and right actions produce work
which will be a material reflection
for others to see of the serenity
at the center of it all.”
— from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
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Kate Captures The Moment 1 comment
Kate Captures The Moment — Image by kenne
All photographs
are memento mori.
To take a photograph
is to participate
in another person’s (or thing’s)
mortality, vulnerability, mutability.
Precisely by slicing
out this moment and freezing it,
all photographs testify to
time’s relentless melt.
— Susan Sontag
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Capturing The Moment — Mother and Son 6 comments
“Mother and Son” Katie Turner Bailey & Kenne Jaxon Bailey (September 14, 2014) — Image by kenne
She is special.
The gate-keeper
To his life,
Knowing when to open
When to close —
Protecting;
Sharing;
Comforting;
Loving.
She is special,
She is a
Mother —
He is special.
— kenne
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Do You Like Your Smartphone To Facebook Photos? Leave a comment
Original Image of Kate in the Surf
Facebook Image
A few postings back, I posted the above photo, which I took off Facebook, of daughter Kate alone the Del Mar, California shore. I did a little Photoshop work on the photo, but wasn’t pleased — still I posted it because I like the captured image of Kate.
Later, I ask Kate if she could send me the original, which she did — much better, containing more pixels than the one I got off Facebook. I know Kate uses filters on many photos she shares on Facebook and she may have in this case — I didn’t ask.
It’s so easy to capture the moment, but often the user is thinking about sharing the moment rather than taking a quality photograph to share. Once a quality photo is captured, which Kate’s friend did, then you can use filters and third-party camera apps to share quality images you have captured.
At the end of the day, it is important to remember that whatever camera you may use to capture the moment, the best camera is always the one you have with you. So, think taking good photographs and not snapshots.
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Caught In The Tide 1 comment
“Caught In The Tide” (Katie Turner Bailey at Del Mar Beach) — Image by Holly, Originally poster on Facebook
Kate caught in the tide
Dress and phone are high and dry,
Friend snaps a picture.
— kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being 